Academic Computing offers computer-based faculty development workshops every semester, and even in-between. Often, however, faculty do not have easily accessible computers to pursue actual development of projects. The Microcomputer Depot currently rents computers at $10 per day, $50 per week. While this is occasionally a nuisance to faculty members digitizing their courses, it is often an impassible barrier to graduate students.

This proposal would purchase a number of upper-end notebook computers that could be lent without payment to faculty and/or graduate students to support this work over a period of a week or so. A typical configuration notebook compute would contain:

• Macintosh or Windows 95 Operating System
• 16 Mbyte RAM
• 500 - 1,000 Mbyte Disk
• PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter with Modem
• Portable CD-ROM
• Network Software pre-installed

Notebook computers under this program could be lent for up to two weeks at a time.